I’m just sitting here frustrated because I’m wanting my family to move away from messaging me over SMS (they mainly use iOS), but they refuse to download any extra apps. But Google’s RCS really doesn’t look like a solution either since it mainly just seems to be a way of enforcing Android as an ecosystem, and they don’t even make RCS available for 3rd party apps to use either.
we need fediverse of instant messaging, where big boys like whatsapp etc are forced to become interoperable with the likes of signal etc
Bad take. The problem isn’t RCS, it’s Apple.
Seriously. We can’t just let Apple off the hook for their anti-competitive walled garden.
Users should continue to demand that they support the more open standard.
The ONLY way to fix the wider world of messaging is mandatory adversarial interoperability.
No matter how clever your new standard is, it will not work.
Adversarial interoperability – even if it is gated to only be required of sufficiently large businesses/platforms – will be the end of all this bullshit once implemented. Messaging should be about the people and the messages, not the platforms.